President Cyril Ramaphosa has provided more details of the legal provisions relied on by the state to cover his predecessor Jacob Zuma’s legal costs. Last week during a question and answer session in the National Assembly, Ramaphosa promised to provide EFF leader Julius Malema with the details of the legal provision or policy the state relied on when using state resources to fund Zuma’s personal legal costs. The legal costs in the fraud, corruption and racketeering charges amounted to R15.3m. But Zuma also faced other legal battles during his presidency. Ramaphosa said in a written reply on Thursday that the state attorney at the time considered section 3(3) of the State Attorney Act, "to give her discretion where the state was not party to a matter but interested or concerned in it, or it was in the public interest to provide such representation to a government official. The acts on the basis of which it is alleged that the former president committed criminal offences took place du...
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